Chemicals in mother's blood linked to child's obesityA team of scientists has revealed that babies whose mothers had relatively high levels of the chemical DDE in their blood were more likely to both grow rapidly during their first 6 months and to have a high body ma*s index (BMI) by 14 months. ANI

Novel treatment helps paralysed rats walk again after spinal-cord injuryExperimenting on rats, a team of researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) have found that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralysed animals to walk, and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill. ANI